[TexasCajun]

...it had to be said.

The vast, vast majority are poor by choice.

[rightofthefairway]

What an as$holeish post,

I was extremely poor while still serving on active duty, because my wife and I gave much of our earnings to base families that had children and NEEDED more than we did.

And after my last deployment, my wife was in Law school and I was out of work. Admittedly, we are doing very well now, however I worked mug harder while poor than i do now while well off

[sagar]

“The vast, vast majority are poor by choice.”

Don’t tell that to those who use sob stories. Eg: “my poor single mother worked 5 jobs to raise me and we ate out of dumpsters”, “I am poor and good hearted, unlike you asshole”, “the economy has been bad”, “waah waah, it is everybody’s fault except mine”, etc.

If an able-bodied and sound-minded American is poor, that person is deserving of contempt. Poor by choice and poor by inability!